Albert wethekbee



. tham, Middlesex county,

'haveinvented a new and improved l'.lip to be Attach to aBilli-ardfCue; and .I do hereby declare tha'tthev 'following is a full and exact description of the same, reference beinghad to the drawings annexed, with let#- ALisirRl-f WETHERBEE, QFWALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

Lmm Pam: Nof 84,036; dans Novmber 1o, 186s.

MROYED COIIPOSITION TIP POR RENARD-GUEB.

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Todll wilma it Be it known that I, AIQBEBT'WE'THEBBEE, of Waland State' of Massachuse ters of reference marked thereon.

.The nature of my invention is that of an attachment to -`they extreme smaller. end of a billiard-cue,

firmly fastened there, and composed of a combination 0f substances, of such character as that,- friction being created, the tipwill not slip upon the'ivory billiardball when, in the prosecution of the game, it impinges 4 upon it.

In the drawings- Figure 1 isa side view of my invention. Figure 2 is a horizontal section of the same.

And in the drawings annexed, A, figs. 1 and 2, isa.

portionot the smaller end' of a billiard-cue.'

B, figs.- 1 and 2, is the tip which I have invented.

This tip is composed ofone-third rubber and sulphur, v(the latter in the usual proportion with vulcan'-i ized rubber,) and two-thirdsof pulverized chalk.

' The m'ode in which I combine these two substances is this: ,I prefer to vuse rubber already vulcanized,

which I reduce Ato powder by grinding.' With this powder I mix my pulverized chalk, (not confining -my- Lself to the exact proportions above harmed.)v The combined substances are then pressed in' a mould, and

' treated by re, in the usual way.

\ into it, 'and secured thereto by glue, shellac, o1: any convenient cement; but I sometimes have .the head of a screv'castinto'thetip, the ,serewportion'projecting outward from the tip, and into the end of thecue; and Ido not confine myself to any peculiar shape of my. tip. Sometimes I make it in the shape of a short l'cylinder with the end plane at the side at whichit is attache vto the cue; and I sometimes make this side 0f the-tip concave, instead of convenu lSometimes I increase the concavity, so thatthe cue-endof thetip assumes the form of a hollow cylinder, fitting on to vthe end of thecue.

I do not claim a rubber tipto the end of a bil1iard-4 que; but

What I claim herein asof my own invention, and: .desire to secure by Letters Patent,

A tip of a billiard-cue, made of 'vulcanized rubber, one part, and pulverized stantially as and for the purpose described.

ALBERT 'WETHERBEE Witnessesz-. v

" LEMUEL P. Jnnxs, J.E. Cormons. v

chalk, more than one part, r vintimately mixed, and baked in'combination, all sub- 

